Umbrella-cover tip



No. 620,206. Patented Feb. 28, I899] I .1. F. WlTT.

UMBRELLA COVER TIP.

(Application filed Oct. 20, 1698.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS F. WITT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

UMBRELLA-COVER TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 620,206, dated February 28, 1899.

Application filed October 20, 1 8 9 8.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUS F. WITT, t- Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Umbrellas, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to umbrellas, and has for its object to provide a cap which shall be adapted to fit sticks or rods of varying size and at the same time be water-tight, said cap being preferably combined in one piece with a ring for the attachment of the cover.

To these ends my invention consists in certain novel features, which I will now proceed to describe and then particularly point out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a detail sectional view of a portion of an umbrella embodying my invention, the umbrella being shown open. Fig. 2- is an elevation of the same portion of the umbrella closed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view through the cap, and Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of the outer portion or shell of the cap.

In umbrellas as ordinarily constructed the cover is secured to a ring, and a separate cap is placed over the stick or rod outside of this ring in order to prevent the water from having access to the cover along the rod or stick, and thus running down to the handle. This cap is ordinarily a metallic annulus, having an opening for the stick and adapted to-fit only one size of stick.

It is the chief object of my invention to provide a cap which will fit sticks of varying sizes, and to this endI employ a metallic cap 10, having a tapering-0r frusto-conical body, which is hollow, for the passage of the stick, said body being slit longitudinally, as shown at 11, so as to form a plurality of elastic tongues 12, which will yield to permit the passage of a stick larger in diameter than the normal size of the opening at the small end of the cap. I prefer to construct the cap of a double body by providing an inner portion or shell and an outer portion or shell 10, this latter having slits 13 and spring- Serial No. 694,130. (No model.)

tongues 14, corresponding with the slits and tongues of the inner or main portion of the cap, but being located alternately with these latter, so that each slit 11 is covered bya tongue 14 and each slit 13 is closed by one of the tongues 12. The outer shell 10 fits snugly over the body of the cap and is secured thereto in any suitable manner, preferably by spinning or turning its lower end around a shoulder 15 of the cap, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The cap is preferably made in one piece with the ring 16, which has a groove 17, by means of which the cloth cover is secured to said ring in the usual manner. The combined cap and ring thus constructed is slipped over the end of the stick 18 in the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with the cloth 19 secured to the ring, and this latter resting upon the collar 20, to which the ribs 21 are pivoted.

It is obvious that the cap will yield to accommodate sticks of varying diameter, and it will thus be unnecessary to provide a large number of caps of varying sizes to accommodate slight differences inthe diameter of the sticks. Moreover, the elastic spring-cap-will fit tightly upon the stick, and owing to the alternating arrangement of the slits and tongues of the two parts of the cap water will not be able to find its way through the slits and thus run down the stick to the handle. It is, moreover, obviously an advantageous construction to form the ring and cap in a single piece, thereby obtaining superior simplicity and strength at a reduced cost.

I claim- A cap for umbrellas or the like having a hollow tapering body of elastic metal slit longitudinally, and an outer shell secured there to and fitting thereon and correspondingly slit, the tongues of the one part lying opposite the slits of the other, substantially as described.

JULIUS F. WITT. W'itnesses:

FREDERICK O. GooDWIN, IRVINE- MILLER. 

